Dana Tai Soon Burgess Quotes
A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
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I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.
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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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This is the thing: I know I'm paving the way for the next generation of girls, and they're not going to have to do this. That's what I hope. I'll take the brunt work and just handle it, and then you guys can just sail right on through.
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I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.
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More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.
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A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
